Patrick Flamm
Peace & Security in the ‘Anthropocene’, from Low Earth Orbit 🛰️ to Antarctica 🇦🇶. Senior Researcher at Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (@prif.org). Head of Research Group ‘Ecology, Climate, and Conflict.’
Formerly at VUW&UoA in Aotearoa New Zealand 🇳🇿.
- “These actions by Congress and the State Department demonstrate that the United States believes that the Antarctic Treaty system continues to advance U.S. geopolitical interests as it has done for decades …
- and is the best achievable starting point to ensure the region does not threaten U.S. geopolitical interests in the coming years.”
- “while interest in the Northern Sea Route is growing, it is set to remain a niche corridor, one that the world’s largest and most risk-averse container operators are choosing to leave off their maps.”